Although we've demonstrated a number of powerful techniques using the Ext tree support, its real strength lies in the wealth of settings, methods, and hook points that the various classes expose. We've already reviewed a number of ways of configuring the TreePanel and TreeNode classes, which give access to a number of powerful features. However, there are more configuration options that can be used to tweak and enhance your tree, and we're going to review some of the more interesting ones now.
By default, there are a number of graphical enhancements enabled for the TreePanel which, depending on your application requirements, may not be desirable. For example, setting animate to false will prevent the smooth animated effect being used for the expansion and contraction of nodes. This can be particularly useful in situations where nodes will be repeatedly expanded and collapsed by a user and slower animated transitions can be frustrating.
Because TreePanel...